Felix Schürmann – författare

By extending their voyages to all oceans from the 1760s onward, whaling vessels from North America and Europe spanned a novel net of hunting grounds, maritime routes, supply posts, and transport chains across the globe. For obtaining provisions, cutting firewood, recruiting additional men, and transshipping whale products, these highly mobile hunters regularly frequented coastal places and islands along their routes, which were largely determined by the migratory movements of their prey. American-style pelagic whaling thus constituted a significant, though often overlooked factor in connecting people and places between distant world regions during the long nineteenth century. Focusing on Africa, this book investigates side-effects resulting from stopovers by whalers for littoral societies on the economic, social, political, and cultural level. For this purpose it draws on eight local case studies, four from Africa’s west coast and four from its east coast. In the overall picture, the book shows a broad range of effects and side-effects of different forms and strengths, which it figures as a "grey undercurrent" of global history.

By extending their voyages to all oceans from the 1760s onward, whaling vessels from North America and Europe spanned a novel net of hunting grounds, maritime routes, supply posts, and transport chains across the globe. For obtaining provisions, cutting firewood, recruiting additional men, and transshipping whale products, these highly mobile hunters regularly frequented coastal places and islands along their routes, which were largely determined by the migratory movements of their prey. American-style pelagic whaling thus constituted a significant, though often overlooked factor in connecting people and places between distant world regions during the long nineteenth century.

Focusing on Africa, this book investigates side-effects resulting from stopovers by whalers for littoral societies on the economic, social, political, and cultural level. For this purpose it draws on eight local case studies, four from Africa’s west coast and four from its east coast. In the overall picture, the book shows a broad range of effects and side-effects of different forms and strengths, which it figures as a "grey undercurrent" of global history.

By extending their voyages to all oceans from the 1760s onward, whaling vessels from North America and Europe spanned a novel net of hunting grounds, maritime routes, supply posts, and transport chains across the globe. For obtaining provisions, cutting firewood, recruiting additional men, and transshipping whale products, these highly mobile hunters regularly frequented coastal places and islands along their routes, which were largely determined by the migratory movements of their prey. American-style pelagic whaling thus constituted a significant, though often overlooked factor in connecting people and places between distant world regions during the long nineteenth century.

Focusing on Africa, this book investigates side-effects resulting from stopovers by whalers for littoral societies on the economic, social, political, and cultural level. For this purpose it draws on eight local case studies, four from Africa’s west coast and four from its east coast. In the overall picture, the book shows a broad range of effects and side-effects of different forms and strengths, which it figures as a "grey undercurrent" of global history.

By extending their voyages to all oceans from the 1760s onward, whaling vessels from North America and Europe spanned a novel net of hunting grounds, maritime routes, supply posts, and transport chains across the globe. For obtaining provisions, cutting firewood, recruiting additional men, and transshipping whale products, these highly mobile hunters regularly frequented coastal places and islands along their routes, which were largely determined by the migratory movements of their prey. American-style pelagic whaling thus constituted a significant, though often overlooked factor in connecting people and places between distant world regions during the long nineteenth century. Focusing on Africa, this book investigates side-effects resulting from stopovers by whalers for littoral societies on the economic, social, political, and cultural level. For this purpose it draws on eight local case studies, four from Africa’s west coast and four from its east coast. In the overall picture, the book shows a broad range of effects and side-effects of different forms and strengths, which it figures as a "grey undercurrent" of global history.

Die Welt vom Wasser aus: in der kartographischen Medialisierung der Meere bildete sich eine neue Sicht auf die Welt heraus.Auf den Meeren formte sich die Welt zur Einheit. Unter den Instrumenten und Medien, die seit dem beginnenden 19. Jahrhundert die Verdichtung transozeanischer Bewegungen möglich und wahrnehmbar machten, trugen Karten entscheidende Bedeutung. Seekarten, die sich den Präzisionsmaßgaben einer messenden und standardisierenden Geographie verschrieben, erlaubten es europäischen Seefahrern, Küsten zu erreichen, die sich vormals nur unter kaum vertretbarem Risiko ansteuern ließen. Zugleich ermöglichten Karten, die die Meere zur Herstellung von Übersicht in Atlanten, in Zeitschriften oder etwa an den Wänden von Kontoren zeigten und in immer neue Relationen zum kontinentalen Festland setzten, die Ausbildung einer Vorstellung von der Welt als eines durch die Ozeane verbundenen Möglichkeitsraums."Jenseits des Terrazentrismus" lädt dazu ein, die Formierung der globalen Welt vom Wasser aus zu betrachten – und von dessen Medialisierung in Karten. In geschichts-, literatur- und medienwissenschaftlichen Beiträgen regt das Buch eine maritim reflektierte Globalisierungsforschung an, die das Geschehen auf und die Beschäftigung mit den Meeren als konstitutiv für die Herausbildung von Globalität begreift.